Cushy Poems

The Belly's Reign

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For Oliver’s: The Bard’s Birthday Contest
03/30/25

Julius Caesar – Act 1 Scene 2 Verse 190-195

Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights.
Yond Cass...
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Categories: cushy, appreciation,
Form: Burlesque

Premium Memberglad it is them and not me

...in the distance it sounds like a monster truck at a drag race
people on adventures, traveling north and south
seeking the wonders and highlights of kansas city
as i sit on my old-fashioned porch
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Categories: cushy, travel,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberIvans Shortcomings

...Imperfect indifferent ineffective Ivan Inglebritzen
Was wistfully, wildly, wantonly weird at work.
Not indispensable, but rather despicable, desperate and diabolical.
Cautious co-workers candidly ...
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Categories: cushy, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Alliteration

sensory grass

...sensory grass

tickles your toes
soft pokes
every word is a stroke
of a blade
not a brush

a lawnmower in the distance
breaks the silence
what the hell…
the smell of fresh-cut grass
and t...
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Categories: cushy, appreciation, beautiful, dream, happy,
Form: Prose Poetry

Premium Memberverdant moss

...cushy curly moss
unusually verdant
glaring with color...
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Categories: cushy, nature,
Form: Haiku


Premium Memberfaerie promise

...I sat on the lovely mushroom village in the warm afternoon
Loving the feel of my soft tushy resting on a cushy mushroom
two faeries came by and I tried to catch them in a bowl.
They saw what I was...
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Categories: cushy, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberCat cpr

...Samantha my cat is a little bit stressed,
with strangers coming in and out of our nest..
She likes my wheelchair, her new spot to rest,
it's soft cushy pillow she finds the best..
When I'm asleep...
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Categories: cushy, appreciation, cat, health,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberInvited Puppies to Tea

...I have invited puppies to tea with Earl Gray brew.
With canned beef, chopped liver and bits of chicken too.
They are coming in, frolicking with a twitch and a twee.
How much more delighted could t...
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Categories: cushy, dog,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberNature's Mimes

...I was a celebrated, dramatic mime artist, an art developed in ancient Greece;
I took folks on flights of imagination, like cushy, butterscotch clouds of fleece.

So beloved was this art ca...
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Categories: cushy, beauty, fantasy, fun, imagery,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberFeline Funsters

...    Greetings from Our Cats 


It is Monday, but do you think we care.
So cozy on our cushy, heavenly, leather chair?


Just had a yummy breakfast, thanks a bunch!
So tell us please, what’...
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Categories: cushy, cat, fun, imagery,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberLet's Go Back to the Midwest

...robin family is annoyed at Spokane’s rainy weather
They get a yellow umbrella and stay together
Let’s go back to the Midwest says the father, loud.
Yes! The wife agrees, looking at a new storm clo...
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Categories: cushy, bird, storm,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberI Like You the Best

...I like you the best
You can come to my nest
And swing in my dinosaur swing
Said my new neighbor, Zing.

I was flattered of course.
I ran over as fast as a horse
Not realizing I would be sittin...
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Categories: cushy, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberYou Know Your Addicted To Poetry If

...1. You walk around all day trying to think of unusual words that rhyme and new things to say.

2. You spend too much time online or in bookstores looking for poetry and other books that make you fe...
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Categories: cushy, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHe Aint Prickly Hes My Brother

...He ain’t prickly, he’s my brother I said.
Full of quills though, right? Asked my neighbor Fred
Not awful, tolerable actually, cushy even,
This was thrown in by my best friend Steven.

You mean y...
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Categories: cushy, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSherry Valentines Cat

...Sherry was an old-fashioned valentine’s day cat 
She loved sitting on fluffy day beds, cushy and fat.
Her parlor had a floral valentine’s day welcome mat
Gift from her latest amour, a tomcat named...
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Categories: cushy, cat,
Form: Monorhyme

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